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&l>t'CAT10N. [Dk. time and place, itifite^U of being cuiiJucUnl by Uie old, and co»«t9nt, aud UDiverf^Uy admitted prin- ciples of our nature. In which caae, it miy be the duty both ot &cund religion and of enlighten- ed policy^ to set ihemselvea against ilic insutiicicnt aud vicious culture of tlie people ; and to in^^i^t, not that the penple ^Ikould abide in darkness, but that their Tniuds Khould be brought wholly and fairly into ligbt. For, if those who c-diicatc tlie youth be not, or the books by which they are educated be notp in hunnony with the spirit of religion, and of law, which arc cstoblithed in a country, and still more if they be opposed to it ; it must come to pa«», Kooiier or later, that the contrary ^piriU will manifest themsulvea and strive together for tho Euperiority. Give me the ^hooU and tht 5chnoI-bcok£. and in time 1 ^liall have both the cburchca and the courts of law. Now, as wc taught in the openii^ of the sul ject, that there arc three distinct ca[>acities saan* which it U the object of educatttin to unfoli ascending one above another in the dignity <.if theij object, to their profitableness to the subject, in their advantage to the common wcul ; namely the knowledge of nature^ and its various forms science aikd art ; tlic knowledge of our own selvi or Tariim» powers and relationrt to one* anotbei and the knowledge of our Creditor and his reveh tioQ : 9^0 new it is to be observed that tlicre ar« a community three several powers, which arc, it were, the consccriitod guardians of the»e thii great inteiests, and whose chief office it is watch over them ; namely, private interest, which each man is the guardian, ^ the public gOi of whicli our governors and lawgivers are the M OS hDCCAllOKi- y2D guardians, — aiMl religion, of whicb the pricstbood Are the gunriltaiiK, Not but that privnte inlere^^t IS, and ouglit to be ibe guardian of all the three ; seeing ev«ry man is as much Interested in taw and religion a» he is in his private property and pe- cultor trafSc. but that these two latter depart- ments, being common to all, have been given over to cla»»eft of mm separated for that end by God, and acknuw1irdg4.'d by all people^ in order to be the counterpoise to the selfishness of private interest. "Sovr, it vrill be found, upun cla>;e in- quiry, that there is the same natural necessity why the auperintendfince of the schools should, in some measure be under these three guardians, who take the charge of the rommonwealth ; name- ly, priv:ite interest, to see th^U liii; yoii:h be